.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 285 309 125
Rank change year-on-year +24 -184 +32
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 544 388 1,936
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.66% 0.99% 2.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.40% 4.96% 10.88%
Number of salaries quoted 516 327 1,798
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £38,113
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £65,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.62% +16.07% -13.85%
75th Percentile £71,376 £83,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +13.64% -12.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,505 7,828 17,794
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.39% 19.92% 19.31%
Number of salaries quoted 6,450 5,261 14,443
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,350 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% +10.58% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,230 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.86% +10.38% -11.11%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 9 June 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 9 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -12 135 £55,000 -8.33% 51
South East +37 107 £57,500 +15.00% 50
London -91 85 £85,000 +6.25% 46
Midlands +16 77 £55,000 -7.56% 23
North West +13 72 £55,000 -8.33% 29
East of England +49 71 £67,500 +22.73% 19
South West -7 64 £50,000 -18.37% 12
North East -13 41 £65,000 +44.44% 9
East Midlands +4 40 £55,000 +4.76% 13
West Midlands -11 37 £55,000 -8.33% 10
Yorkshire -54 22 £55,000 -8.33% 14
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 21 (3.86%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.47%) IIS
3 4 (0.74%) CMS
4 1 (0.18%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.18%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.37%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.37%) Magento
1 2 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.37%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 386 (70.96%) Azure
2 117 (21.51%) Azure DevOps
3 87 (15.99%) AWS
4 68 (12.50%) GitHub
5 56 (10.29%) Azure AI
6 51 (9.38%) GitHub Copilot
7 50 (9.19%) Azure Logic Apps
8 47 (8.64%) SaaS
9 42 (7.72%) Serverless
10 41 (7.54%) Power Platform
11 32 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 24 (4.41%) Azure Functions
12 24 (4.41%) Azure Monitor
12 24 (4.41%) Power Automate
12 24 (4.41%) PowerApps
13 22 (4.04%) Azure Data Factory
14 21 (3.86%) Microsoft 365
15 19 (3.49%) Adobe Creative Cloud
15 19 (3.49%) OneDrive
16 18 (3.31%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.49%) Internet
2 3 (0.55%) HTTPS
2 3 (0.55%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (0.37%) Firewall
4 1 (0.18%) AMQP
4 1 (0.18%) Modbus
4 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 203 (37.32%) Azure SQL Database
2 148 (27.21%) MongoDB
3 146 (26.84%) SQL Server
4 54 (9.93%) Elasticsearch
5 35 (6.43%) Power BI
6 17 (3.13%) NoSQL
7 14 (2.57%) MySQL
8 12 (2.21%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (1.29%) Relational Database
10 6 (1.10%) Redis
11 5 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (0.92%) DynamoDB
11 5 (0.92%) GIS
12 4 (0.74%) NonStop SQL
13 2 (0.37%) MariaDB
14 1 (0.18%) Data Lake
14 1 (0.18%) Data Warehouse
14 1 (0.18%) Electronic Patient Records
14 1 (0.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 32 (5.88%) Git
2 7 (1.29%) GitLab
3 6 (1.10%) JIRA
3 6 (1.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 5 (0.92%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.55%) Vite
6 2 (0.37%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.37%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.37%) webpack
7 1 (0.18%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.18%) MSTest
7 1 (0.18%) NUnit
7 1 (0.18%) Selenium
7 1 (0.18%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 81 (14.89%) Finance
2 52 (9.56%) Social Skills
3 24 (4.41%) Games
4 22 (4.04%) Advertising
5 18 (3.31%) Retail
6 17 (3.13%) Banking
7 14 (2.57%) Marketing
8 11 (2.02%) Analytical Skills
9 9 (1.65%) Automotive
10 8 (1.47%) Front Office
10 8 (1.47%) Law
11 6 (1.10%) Aerospace
12 5 (0.92%) Legal
12 5 (0.92%) Manufacturing
12 5 (0.92%) Public Sector
13 4 (0.74%) Back Office
13 4 (0.74%) Electronics
13 4 (0.74%) Music Industry
14 3 (0.55%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.37%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 421 (77.39%) Developer
2 274 (50.37%) .NET Developer
3 108 (19.85%) Software Developer
4 107 (19.67%) Senior
5 63 (11.58%) C# Developer
5 63 (11.58%) Senior Developer
6 53 (9.74%) C# .NET Developer
7 48 (8.82%) Lead
8 47 (8.64%) Full-Stack Developer
8 47 (8.64%) Software Engineer
9 31 (5.70%) Senior Software Developer
10 29 (5.33%) Lead Developer
11 28 (5.15%) .NET Software Developer
12 25 (4.60%) .NET Software Engineer
13 23 (4.23%) Senior Software Engineer
14 22 (4.04%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
15 21 (3.86%) C# Software Developer
16 20 (3.68%) Azure Developer
17 19 (3.49%) Azure Engineer
18 18 (3.31%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 544 (100.00%) .NET
2 260 (47.79%) ASP.NET
3 193 (35.48%) ASP.NET Core
4 130 (23.90%) React
5 119 (21.88%) HTML
6 118 (21.69%) CSS
7 114 (20.96%) Entity Framework
8 107 (19.67%) Blazor
9 101 (18.57%) RESTful
10 96 (17.65%) .NET Framework
11 91 (16.73%) Vue
12 84 (15.44%) AngularJS
13 78 (14.34%) ASP.NET Web API
14 70 (12.87%) Node.js
15 56 (10.29%) ML.NET
16 49 (9.01%) LINQ
17 43 (7.90%) REST
18 39 (7.17%) JSON
19 21 (3.86%) Microsoft Graph
20 19 (3.49%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 45 (8.27%) Greenfield Project
2 26 (4.78%) Enterprise Software
3 21 (3.86%) Cloud Native
4 14 (2.57%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 13 (2.39%) Hedge funds
5 13 (2.39%) Product Ownership
6 11 (2.02%) Sports Betting
7 10 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (1.65%) Digital TV
8 9 (1.65%) iPhone
8 9 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (1.65%) Mobile App
9 8 (1.47%) Social Network
10 7 (1.29%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.10%) Client/Server
11 6 (1.10%) Low-Code
12 5 (0.92%) Renewable Energy
12 5 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (0.74%) BBC
13 4 (0.74%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.39%) VMS
2 9 (1.65%) Android
3 7 (1.29%) Windows
4 4 (0.74%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 278 (51.10%) Full-Stack Development
2 229 (42.10%) Agile
3 163 (29.96%) CI/CD
4 147 (27.02%) DevOps
5 104 (19.12%) Microservices
6 91 (16.73%) Software Engineering
7 77 (14.15%) AI
8 76 (13.97%) Machine Learning
9 71 (13.05%) Multithreading
10 55 (10.11%) OO
11 53 (9.74%) SDLC
12 52 (9.56%) Continuous Improvement
13 49 (9.01%) Containerisation
14 44 (8.09%) Analytics
14 44 (8.09%) User Experience
15 43 (7.90%) MVC
16 40 (7.35%) Business Intelligence
17 37 (6.80%) TDD
18 36 (6.62%) Clean Code
19 35 (6.43%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 498 (91.54%) C#
2 306 (56.25%) SQL
3 154 (28.31%) JavaScript
4 121 (22.24%) TypeScript
5 37 (6.80%) PowerShell
6 18 (3.31%) Python
7 12 (2.21%) Kusto Query Language
8 9 (1.65%) T-SQL
9 4 (0.74%) Bash
9 4 (0.74%) Bicep
9 4 (0.74%) Java
10 3 (0.55%) PHP
10 3 (0.55%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.37%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.18%) C++
12 1 (0.18%) F#
Qualifications
1 38 (6.99%) Degree
2 18 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (1.29%) AWS Certification
4 6 (1.10%) Azure Certification
4 6 (1.10%) Security Cleared
5 5 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (0.55%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.37%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.37%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.37%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.18%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.31%) QA
2 11 (2.02%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.37%) GDPR
3 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.37%) ITGC
3 2 (0.37%) SLA
4 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 118 (21.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 107 (19.67%) Kubernetes
2 22 (4.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 270 (49.63%) Microsoft
2 20 (3.68%) Google
3 19 (3.49%) Adobe
3 19 (3.49%) Facebook
4 9 (1.65%) YouTube
5 4 (0.74%) Apple
5 4 (0.74%) CrowdStrike
5 4 (0.74%) Sony
5 4 (0.74%) Workday
5 4 (0.74%) Yahoo!
6 3 (0.55%) Splunk
7 2 (0.37%) Foundry
7 2 (0.37%) Oracle
7 2 (0.37%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.18%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.18%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.18%) Reuters
8 1 (0.18%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.18%) WooCommerce